Ambient Music Mix Download - PsyAmb 43

Today's mix is the third in the minimal ambient mix downloads. This one kicks of with ISHQ's track "El Morya" which you can find on Celestial Dragon Recordings "Portals Of Perceptions" release from 2005. An excellent compilation overall. This was the closing track and plays out over are rather delightful 12 minutes ! I haven't included the entire 12 minutes in this mix so check out the track at CDRs if you want to enjoy some more listening time. ISHQ is brilliant so definitely check out their work if you have yet to do so - I don't think I've ever heard a bad tune from them.

Next we have "Sound of Silence" by "Pallers" from their recent debut album "The Sea Of Memories". The release took three years to compile as members Johan Angergård and Henrik Mårtensson traveled the globe finding inspiration where they went. The result is a real gem of a release that deserves all the high praise is will garner over the years to come.

Both members come from the same small town in the south of Sweden, Åhus, and have known each other half their lives. One member has a love for ambient, trip hop and electronica while the other is deeply involved in the world of pop. Pallers combine these seemingly tricky components with such ease it almost seems effortless – turning it into something new - something of their very own. A must buy for any fans of of textural soundscapes and evolving melodies.

The third tune in this mix comes from "Lemongrass" ( Roland Voss ) via his 2011 release "Sirius", a mix of ambient, downtempo, chillout and future jazz styles. Roland has been making music for about three decades now. He made his start in the 1970s as a drummer in various bands and has continued making music ever since, becoming one of Germany's most prolific electronic music recording artists. With his brother, Roland manages record label "Lemongrass Music" which they established in 2005 as a way of releasing their own music and that of other artists they both enjoy. They label certainly has been busy with close to 20 releases this year and growing ! Here is a good interview with Roland from back in 2004.

"Maps and Diagrams" is the brainchild of Tim Martin, a highly esteemed ambient music producer who has released on a number of leading labels such as Handstitched ( his own label ), Expanding, Static Caravan and more.This track, "Fragments Of a Former Moon" comes from the Fluid Audio release "Cubiculo" of 2010. This was an exclusive mini release for Fluid Audio comprising of four tracks if I remember rightly. It is a tasty little release as it succinctly highlights what the Maps and Diagrams sounds is all about - wonderfully beautiful looping dreamscapes with infinite possibilities.

After Tim is a track from an artists I just recently discovered - Hummingbird. The album "Our Fearful Symmetry" from which this track comes is best described in the words of one reviewer as "an album of incredible poise, precision and elegance". Personally I found the album to be tinged with melancholia which makes for great listening on those bleak wintry days. You might struggle to find a copy these days as the album was limited to just 100 copies but you could try a used copy from Discogs but be prepared - it won't be cheap as I well discovered !

Next up is Sattyananda, a.k.a Nikhel Kumar Mahajan, with a lovely bit of ambient Indian music from his 2006 release "Internal Activities" of 2006 on DadA music. In 2005 Nikhel conceptualized an album Vande Mataram - which showcased Indian Electronica at its best. The CD was launched by Music Today. Following which he put all his energy into forming India's first electronic label, DadA Music. He went into the studio in the winter of 2005-06 and composed, produced and arranged 'Internal Activities'. He has skillfully incorporated traditional Indian Classical Instruments in the compositions whereby creating a timeless journey into the inner-self. I feel this album was overlooked somewhat by the psychill/psybient crowd who I think would get a real kick out of it. The DadA music website seems to be down these days so you might have to check out places like Psyshop or SaikoSounds if you want to pick up a copy.

Not to be confused with the Jaia of goatrance fame, Jaja ( not the second j ) is the work of German artist Jana Rockstroth. this track comes from the free to download album "OUM". This was released through Cyan Music, the German label, not the Australian Cyan Music that is an offshoot of Psy-Harmonics ! Pretty cool release if you ask me. Grab it now over at Cyan netlabel.

Next we have a couple of big names in the ambient and electronic music scenes - Carbon Based Lifeforms, Thomas Fehlmann, Brian Eno, Aes Dana and Vibrasphere,.These are all artists that get a fair amount of track time here at PsyAmb so for the sake of keeping this post short and not boring you all I suggest checking them all out if you have yet to do so. Quite frankly they are all essential listening and defined the past present and future of ambient and psychill music in their own ways.

So let's fast forward through the mix to "Cipher" . This tunes comes from the CD "No Ordinary Man" released in 2003 on "Hidden Art". Cipher - originally formed in 1996 to compose a soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock's silent classic 'The Lodger' - is the combination of the two well established artists, Theo Travis and Dave Sturt. Theo is well known for his work with the likes of Porcupine Tree and Gong ( awesome group !) , Dave is a long time producer and member of Jade Warrior. These two guys have done so much work over the years across so many projects that it's impossible to list it all here. For a quick run down try the Cipher website. This album I can't recommend enough. I listened to it for hours on end back in the day when it was released. Absolutely sublime music.

If you like your ambient music with a bit of a moody feel that wraps you up in a warm aural blanket then look no further. "Stars Of The Lid" with their track "A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process" and the "Hammock" tune "Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow" must be two of the most amazing pieces of ambient music ever produced You can listen to both tracks on YouTube so check them out and see what I mean. The albums that both the tracks come from are absolute classics in the genre and should not be missed.

We wrap up to do with the short and sweet "Neil's Theme" from Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. This comes from the soundtrack to the movie "Mysterious Skin" in which a teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. A worthwhile film with some excellent performances by Brady Corbet and Joseph Gorden.

Well that's it for this mix. I hope you enjoy listening to it. I've been listening to it while writing this post actually and I'm enjoying it more each time. This is just the third mix in the ambient music downloads series so if you haven't caught the other ones check the links below or go to the mp3 mix downloads archive from the link on the right page. See you all next time and have a relaxing, ghostly halloween weekend.


Track / Artist

• 01. El Morya - Ishq
• 02. Sound Of Silence - Pallers
• 03. Nibiru - Lemongrass
• 04. Fragments of a Former Moon - Maps and Diagrams
• 05. Defining Space - Hummingbird
• 06. Space Fields - Sattyananda
• 07. Oxygen - Jaja
• 08. System - Carbon Based Lifeforms
• 09. In The Wind - Thomas Fehlmann
• 10. Complex Heaven - Brian Eno
• 11. Currents - Aes Dana
• 12. Aguas Calientes - Vibrasphere
• 13. Dusk - Cipher
• 14. A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process - Stars of the Lid
• 15. Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow - Hammock
• 16. Neil's Theme - Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd

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Hello all and welcome to the latest mix of my ambient blog. This time around I have created another minimal ambient mix for all you lovers of beat-less ambiance and relaxing sleep music. Contained within you'll find a variety of styles but I tried to maintain a very chilled out ambient trance experience so I hope you all enjoy it. If you are a first time visitor here and you are wondering "what is ambient music ?" then why not download the mix, listen and decide for yourself.

First up we have "Proton Kinoun" [Kasper Wensgaard] with his track "Skyward Dreams" from the album "Apeiron". Some of you might know of Kasper's earlier work under the "Psylent Buddhi" alias. Aperion is great listen and is now available as a free,high quality format download from the brilliant web-label "Ektoplazm" via their sublabel "Omnitropic".

Next is ambient, dub superstars "The Orb" with the track "OOPA" from "Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume III)" of 2009. The Orb has been entertaining me with their mix of dubby psychedelic ambient trance for the best past of the last 20 years. These days the group has been whittled down to a solo, forming member "Alex Patersen" and collaborator "Thomas Fehlmann". I like this lineup. Fehlmann's Berlin stylings lend a hint of minimal tech-house that prevent Alex's imagination from going to far out beyond the point of no return. The album was created as a soundtrack to Werner Boote's documentary "Plastic Planet". There’s a very special atmosphere to this album: two men bouncing ideas and exploring in classic Orb style to make a classic Orb album, hitting the magic place Alex always strives for, but this time with a lustful vengeance tempered with new gentleness and a movie in their heads.

Following The Orb is "Digital Samsara" with the track "Olhon" from the album "Blue Beryll". Digital Samsara is a mutli talented group of world-fusion inspired artists. The band comprises of four main members but expands out further on live outings. Currently they have 3 great studio albums and last I heard were working on a fourth. However, given that their label "Cosmic Event" seem to have disappeared without trance , that might not come to fruition. They are still around doing festival and live performance shows. Let's hope we can listen to more great tunes from these guys in the not too distant future.

Next up is "Stress Assassin" [ a.k.a Henrik Jonsson ]. This tune is from his his second CD "Carriertrack". I've featured a few Stress Assassin tracks in past mixes so for more info hit up the PsyAmb search options. I would like to mention however that although Stress Assassin seems to be finished as a project for Henrik you can still find him doing other great work these days through his "Porn,Sword Tobacco" moniker as well as various masterings on labels such as "Labrador". Oh, one more tidbit - his first classic ambient dub CD "Within The Office Of Eye And Ear" is now available as a very affordable download over at "Dubmission Records".

The next tunes comes from "Babaji" with his track "Smiling Buddha" from the compilation "Chilled Trance - Blissed Out Beats / Mind Cooling Meltdowns" - a massive 4CD offering from Rumour Records back in 2000. Babji is none other than ambient wizard "Matt Hillier" of ISHQ fame. It's almost a full-time job trying to keep up with all the monikers Matt has used over the past. The Babaji one was only used on this single track which I've noticed he has done quite a bit of in the past. Anyway , some good news is that Matt announced that an all new ISHQ CD is due for release soon ! More sublime subaquatic sonic sojourns ! Yeah !

After that is "Aznyte Falls" by "Tom Middleton". A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with "Richard D. James" [Aphex Twin ], co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the "Analogue Bubblebath" EP for Exeter's influential "Mighty Force Records". This was followed by his first solo outing, "My Splendid Idea", under the name Schizophrenia for the same label.

Soon after, he teamed up with Mark Pritchard. The pair recorded under a host of pseudonyms, including the popular "Reload" , "Global Communication" , and "Jedi Knights" (electro funk and house music), plus lesser-known aliases Chameleon and Link & E621. Global Communication's 1994 ambient album 76:14 is widely considered to be a classic in the ambient electronic scence.

Aside from Schizophrenia, Tom's solo projects include The Modwheel (experimental house music), Cosmos (progressive house music) and AMBA (ambient/classical). In Summer of 2007, Middleton abandoned the AMBA moniker, while still focusing on the ambient genre fusing classical traditions with electronica, featuring orchestral, choral and electro acoustic arrangements.

Predominantly using the Cosmos and Modwheel monikers (and his own name) Middleton has remixed numerous artists including Kerri Chandler, Orbital, Kylie Minogue, Coldplay, Underworld, Fluke, Super Collider, Prince, Spiller, Model 500, The Beloved, Rob Dougan, Pulp, Leftfield, Ian Pooley, Dubtribe Sound System, All Saints, Goldfrapp, Lamb, Röyksopp, Gotan Project, Amp Fiddler, Mighty Dub Katz, Bebel Gilberto and Orbital.

Next we have a tune from Kiwi "Paddy Free". Paddy Free began fooling around with a Roland SH-101 in 1985, three months after leaving school and starting his first real job. The purchase of a delay pedal followed soon after and he discovered the joys of repeating a three-note sequence while moving the knobs in time to the music. However this was New Zealand, not Detroit and so the underground sound of North Shore techno never quite made it into the public consciousness. Having had lessons in the use of all ten fingers some years earlier, it wasn't too long before he was playing keyboards in pub bands all over the North Shore.

Packing in his day job in 1989 he was let loose for three years on children's live-to-air television (TV3's The Earlybird Show and Ya Hoo) which would later lead to a lucrative career writing musical satire for several NZ comedy series - some of them quite funny. (That Comedy Show, Comedy Central, Pulp Comedy)

This lighthearted buffoonery was to end in 1994 when Paddy was employed as programmer on an album Killing Joke were recording in NZ - "Pandemonium" produced by dance music guru Youth. Six weeks of impossibly loud guitars and an unwitting introduction to the lysergic universe changed everything. Paddy immediately began to get serious about music and work as a programmer/engineer/producer with many of the big names of the New Zealand music industry such as Crowded House, Neil Finn, Supergroove, Emma Paki, Stellar*, Oceania, and Salmonella Dub. Paddy was nominated for Best Producer at the NZ Music Awards for his work on Salmonella Dub's "Inside the Dub Plates" and was awarded Best Engineer.

In 1996 Paddy was a founding member of Mesh, a "live organic techno" band combining dancefloor technology with traditional Pacific instruments. Firm favourites in Auckland's emerging dance scene, Mesh impressed punters with their high energy live gigs and innovative sound. The band was to break up after two intense years but Paddy's love of the energy and rhythms of Pacific music continues in his solo project. Oh and let's not forget he is also one half of "Pitch Black" - the all conquering NZ techno dub trance legends who put on the best live shows you are ever likely to groove to.


The next track is from "Enuui" and also features input from "Greg Hunter" and "Mauxuam" of "Cloudcycle" project fame. As in keeping with the Cloudcycle free music/donation policy , this track and many others can be downloaded from the downloads page of the Cloudcycle website.

After Ennui is The Godfather Brian of ambient music, "Brian Eno", with a tune from an old compilation series I picked up 10 years ago or so titled "OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music". It has an odd assortment of tunes spread over 3 CDs and some of them are real gems.

"Stellardrone" is a pseudonym of amateur composer Edgaras from Lithuania,who started creating music in 2007. Using only computer software (Reason, Ableton) and virtual synthesizers. He is mostly interested in ambient/electronic/space music. Such as can be found on labels like Ultimae. Edgaras releases all his music for free too so check his links [here] and [here] to get your hands on some rather excellent free music.

Following on is "Makyo" [ Giovanni Fazio ] based in Tokyo. This tune comes from his 1999 debut CD titled "Rasa Bhava" . A truly epic album full of eastern mysticism and tribal trance inducing rhythms.Once of my all time favorite CDs to be sure. Makyo has been fairly quiet lately on the music production side of things but he has been busy putting on gigs around Japan as well as playing out at some of the major international festivals.

"Elysium" is the work of Kristian Andersen, a veteran in the international electronic music scene. He has many releases on legendary labels such as R&S Records sub label Labyrinth [1994-1995] and as Elysium on Nova Zembla [1995-1998)] and has travelled the world playing as an artist and DJ at many legendary clubs and festivals. While working as a freelance A&R for Polygram, Kris started out as a professional DJ in London in 1990 in the acid house scene and when he returned to Copenhagen it was the beginning of a long international music career into tribal trance, electronica and techno. A career that once again took him back to London where he lived from 1996-98 while playing all over the world and producing and remixing at the legendary Butterfly Studio in London.

After a break from 2002 - 2005 Kris went back to the house scene and is currently busy with his projects under his own name, his techno project Rymdfunk and deep house/tech project Andersen & Borelli with longtime friend and producer Jean Borelli. This tune comes from a re-release of his CD called "Regenerated" from 2009 with the original recording released in 2002. This also comes from one of the many fine free CDs on offer at Ektoplazm music.

Next is "Hybrid Leisureland" with the track "Exit Unreality" from the CD "Scroll Side". Hybrid Leisureland [Hidetoshi Koizumi] , is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo who began his musical career in 1995. "I picture the original world, investigate my own, and express it as delicate whispers...". notes Hidetoshi. His music is incredibly light and fragile, an ambient electronica fused with environmental sounds-capes and contrasted atmospheres.

Finally we　close out this set with a my favorite tune from "Biosphere". Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen, a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his ambient techno and arctic ambient styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album "Substrata" [on which this track appears] was voted by "Hyperreal" as one of the all time classic ambient albums. His latest release is "Wireless: Live at the Arnolfini", his first live album, containing new tracks such as "Pneuma I & II".

Jenssen has also scored a number of films, including Eternal Stars [1993] and Insomnia [1997]. He collaborated with German ambient composer Pete Namlook on Fires of Ork, and has also worked with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart and with Bobby Bird of Higher Intelligence Agency. Jenssen is also an active climber and mountaineer. This hobby is an inspiration on his work, as well as a source of natural sound samples. His highest feat was in 2001, climbing the Cho Oyu (Himalaya, 8201 meters) without oxygen; in 2006, he thus released Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings From Tibet [as Geir Jenssen].

And that's it for this mix. A nice long chilled ambient journey that can be used for as relaxing sleep music, chilling out background sounds, music for studying or anything else you can image. Cheerio 8)



Artist - Track

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• 01. Proton Kinoun - Skyward Dreams
• 02. The Orb - Oopa
  
• 03. Digital Samsara - Olhon
• 04. Stress Assassin - Raumwelt Signal
• 05. Smiling Buddah - Babaji
• 06. Tom Middleton - Aznyte Falls
• 07. Paddy Free - Roimata Toroa
• 08. Enuui - Chimbre (feat. Mauxuam & Greg Hunter)
• 09. Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Winds (Leeks Hills)
  
• 10. Stellardrone - On A Beam Of Light
• 11. Makyo - A Piece Of Forgotten Song / Drifting Across The Water
• 12. Elysium - Utterances From The North
• 13. Hybrid Leisureland - Exist Unreality
  
• 14. Biosphere - Hyperborea

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This week I've decided to try something a little different here at PsyAmb. Regular visitors to this site will know that I do love my beats and bass when it comes to psybient music. However, I also appreciate all the quality beatless ambient music being produced by the many fine artists within the psychedelic ambient music scene. With that in mind I present to you here a very chilled out selection of deep ambience that's lights on the percussion.

The opening track is from one of my favorite releases of last year - "Tokyo" by "Marconi Union" . Marconi Union are Richard Talbot and James Crossley, a British musical duo with strong links to the Manchester based DOTCA arts collective. They are notable for incorporating elements of electronica, ambient, jazz and dub into their music, and a tendency to make records that are conceptually-based. Frequent comparisons are drawn between Marconi Union and bands such as Talk Talk, Sigur Rós and Boards of Canada.

"Pan Electric" is next with the track "A Winter's Walk". This is a great tune from the excellent "Conscious Pilot" album of 2007. Pan Electric is one man audio magician Matt Coldrick from the U.K. Matt was featured in a previous episode of PsyAmb ( Episode 14 ). Check it out for more info and tunes from this highly regarded artist. I also recommend stopping by the label Matt operates called "Absolute Ambient".

Following on from Pan Electric is a tune from one of my all-time favorite CDs. "Slim Westerns Vol I & II" by the group "A Small, Good Thing". It plays out as a soundtrack to an imaginable western - think of Ennio Morricone mixed with Brian Eno and throw in Clint Eastwood on a desolate landscape - tremendous ! Band member Andrew Hume is also a member of "O Yuki Conjugate" - another of my favorite ambient groups.

Next we have "Objekt4" from the CD "Space Jungle Slums" released through "Ajana Records" in 2007. Objekt4 (pronounced "Objective" because 4 = IV in roman numerals ) is the industrial, dark ambient band created by Anders Peterson in 2003 with the aim of expanding cinematic sound design into music. I'm not sure in Objeckt4 is still around though. I remember he released a notice a few years ago saying that he has put the project to rest. However he has so many aliases it can be difficult to keep track of him. Anyway, everything he touches is gold and well worth looking into if you like your ambient a bit on the dark side. This CD can be found at "Ajana Records" along with many great psychedelic ambient records.

Track four in the mix is from Australian music legend "Gus Till". Active as a musician/producer and DJ since the Punk days of the 70's in Melbourne Australia. The keyboard player for many pop groups (Beargarden and The Models) and was part of Michael Hutchences ( INXS ) 'Max Q' project before forming "Third Eye" with fellow Australian Ollie Olsen. He was also a member of 'The Ears' upon which the infamous 'Dogs in Space' film was based. Towards the end of the 80's he recorded a project with Bono and Edge from U2 and Todd Terry. This period saw shifts to New York and Paris for 3 years before finally settling in London. During this period he worked with and remixed African Jazz/Soul legend Manu Dibango, Nina Hagen, Jamiroquai, producer Youth (for who he was his in-house engineer at Butterfly studios) amongst others. Gus is well known in the psychedelic music scene through his work with projects like Bus , Turban Block and Zen Lemonade and Slinky Wizard. This tune comes from the ambient compilation "Wabi" released through once defunct now reborn ( as a donation based net-label ) "Flying Rhino Records". The Rhinos are doing an amazing thing here - a lot of their back catalog is now available for download with PayPal donation going to help starving children of Goa , India.

Circular is a Norwegian band who found themselves a nice home on "Ultimae Records" after a few releases on various labels. Their CD on Ultime is called "Substans" and is an absolute beauty ! This track comes from Cirular's early days - a 2001 "Interchill Records" release called "Flotation". Much like "Wabi" , this was another CD I played to death.

Following Circular is ambient superstar "ISHQ" with a track from the highly acclaimed album "Orchid". ISHQ's members , Matt Hillier and Jacqueline Kersley,　are based in the UK and have been making music since about 1995 under various guises including 'Indigo egg , Ishvara , Elve and a few other alter egos. Matt and Jacqueline also run ' Virtual ' a limited edition cd label which releases their more experimental soundscape music and other studio works. Orchid is an amazing piece of art. A true meditative masterpiece that should be in the collection of all lovers of ambient music.

Next we have Italian duo "Aqua dorsa" and a track from "Zaum Vol 1" CD released through Irish label "Psychonavigation Records". The CD is a mix of pure ambient and some more up beat driven tunes. A pretty solid release overall. The group involves "Enrico Coniglio" and "Gianluigi Gasparetti" a.k.a "Oophoi". This track can also be found on their debut albumn "Cloudlands".

"System 7" , gods of psychedelic techno and chillout step up with a track from "Point 3 - Water Album". "Steve Hillage" and "Miquette Giraudy", both members of space jazz eclectic rockers "Gong", formed System 7 after hearing the likes of The Orb playing Hillage's 1979 ambient record "Rainbow Dome Musick". They soon became part of the underground dance scene in London. Hillage released a number of solo prog space rock albums from as early as 1975 with quite a number of them charting in the UK top 50. The second solo album , simply titled "L" went as high at top 10. While Hillage and Giraudy form the core of System 7, it is more of an extended collaboratory project with artists such as Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Alex Paterson (of The Orb), and Youth. Unusually for an ambient/dance band, System 7 makes extensive use of Hillage's guitars. Hillage and Giraudy have also launched a spin-off project called "Mirror System", which they describe as "the new vehicle for developing the chilled & downtempo dimensions of our music". They have also worked under the name Groovy Intent.

Next up is "Sync24" with the track Hibernation. This comes from the "Chillogram" compilation released by one of my favorite labels, "Peak Records". Peak Records have loads of excellent psychill artists on their roster at the moment and don't look like slowing down. Synch24 is part of the Ultimae Records juggernaut and also a member of the much loved "Carbon Based Lifeforms".

"P.Laoss" featured in the episode 21 of PsyAmb with his minimal dubby ambiance. This time we have an ever more stripped back tune , once again from his "Landscapes and Machines" CD.

After that is composer and musician "Clint Mansell" with a tune from the soundtrack to "The Fountain". Beautiful music that sends your body off floating into the ether of imaginary fields. I was very surprised to discover that Clint was the lead singer of "Pop Will Eat Itself" back in the mid 80s to mid 90s. Good to see he is still producing the goods. This is about as far removed from PWEI as you can get ! The movie is awesome too ! He has also done soundtracks for "Requiem for a Dream" and "Pi". Pi had a brilliant soundtrack too - all those frenetic industrial scrapes and drum and bass beats.

Following Clint we have a tune from "Nick Doof ( aka Nick Barber aka Doof )". Nick has been around the psychedelic music scene since the early 90s. Nick is also one third of Vatos Locos,along with Celli Firmi and Xavier Fux,and half of one of my dub favs - Third Ear Audio with Celli Firmi. Apart from an extensive catalogue of electronic music under his belt, Nick also released a collection of songs in a more traditional folk / vocal style called "Clear Blue Sky" . It's surprising quite good too - very smooth and relaxing. This tune comes from Tip Worlds great "Twelve" compilation of some years back.

Canadian duo "Drift" are next with the tune "Frog" from the compilation "Northern Circuits". Drift comprises of talented multi instrumentalist and electronic producer "Adahm Shaik" and guitarist Tim Floyd. If you can track down their self titled debut album , don't hesitate to part with the cash - its awe-inspiring. Long and smooth guitar tinged rivers of ethno-dub ambiance .

"Sister Bliss" by "Ganja Beats" is a lovely little tune featuring some wonderful gliding vocal chants . Ganja Beats is the name used by the very prolific artist Jake Stephensen. Jack was known for running the Kinetix label, but also for making music as Shamanic Tribes On Acid, Alien Mutation, Dr. Psychedelic, Mantra, Crystal Moon (together with Ishq), Bass Meditation, Mind Control, Eyetek, Whitestar and off course Optica and Optic Eye. Jake tragically died back in 2005 at the age of 42, right after he had completed the album this tune comes from , "Paradise & Tranquility".

The final track for this week is another tune from "Matt Coldrick". This time from his CD "Music For A Busy Head" which is a well loved favorite of mine. Once again , check out the "Absoulte Ambient" website for more info. You can also sign up to the Absolute Ambient newsletter there so you can keep up to date with future releases from this excellent label.

That's it for this week. Hope you all enjoy this ambient music mix - its a nice change I think. Something that can play out in the background while you go about your daily activities. 8)



Artist - Track

• 01. Marconi Union - Lost In Neon
• 02. Pan Electric - A Winters Walk
• 03. A Small, Good Thing - Cropduster
• 04. Objekt 4 - Time to Die
• 05. Gus Till - Bermuda
• 06. Circular - Drifting
• 07. Ishq - Essene
• 08. Aqua Dorsa - Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence
• 09. System 7 - Sirenes (Tranquility Mix)
• 10. Sync24 - Hibernation
• 11. P. Laoss - Landscapes and Machines pt 2
• 12. Clint Mansell - Xibalba
• 13. Nick Doof - Ab ( A flat )
• 14. Drift - Frog
• 15. Ganja Beats - Sister Bliss
• 16. Matt Coldrick - Heart Green Contentment

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